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Armand Hammer
Hammer expanded Occidental Oil from a tiny, near-bankrupt California oil firm into one of the “Big Oil” companies - turning it into a conglomerate, beginning with the acquisition of an oil concession from Libya. Hammer was also... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
HBS, your professional status, your relative age, where you are in your personal life, and your aspirations generally. Looking at our alumni population using this framework will inform some early decisions on new programs to pilot, such... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
beginning August 2018. Erwin Wurm, Big Disobedience, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Erwin Wurm, Big Disobedience, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, View Details
Carl C. Icahn
Throughout his career, Icahn specialized in and greatly benefited from orchestrating complex financial transactions including arbitrage. At the height of the “go-go eighties,” Icahn became a quintessential Wall Street corporate raider and an expert in the extraction of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Alumni Relations team in Boston for their outstanding organization and attention to every detail. As we head into the 2006–2007 academic year, we welcome twelve new alumni board members and bid farewell and thanks to those retiring for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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A Focus on You
To sweeten the deal, we have something big to offer in exchange. Beginning this month, HBS is launching a brand-new Alumni website, featuring personalized content delivery (based on your profession and unique interests), customized events... View Details
- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
Bruce Knecht (MBA ’86) reveals in his new book, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish (Rodale, 2006). The author, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, details an Australian patrol boat’s 4,000-mile chase of an illegal fishing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
parlor, as an early source of entrepreneurial influence. Her advice? “Do for yourself. Do for your people. Provide a quality product.” Cyberposium Building Leaders for Technology January 17–19, 2003 Sponsor: HBS High Tech & New Media Club... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria
Harvard Business School was launched as a “delicate experiment” in 1908. In the years since, we have defined—and refined—management education so as to meet the needs of a changing world. Today, as we begin our 12th decade, we recognize... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being admitted to the MBA program and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden... View Details
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A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 | Baker Library
Fortune 500 list of largest American corporations by revenue. 1965 Polaroid Model 20 Land Camera The Swinger, the Polaroid Model 20 Land Camera, is commercially launched. 1966 Morse becomes director of special photographic research 1967 Polaroid View Details
- 21 Aug 2008
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Stylin’ at Gallatin
going through someone else’s room. The project was a gut rehab, with demolition beginning just after graduation in June 2007. “We had Bobcats going up and down the halls, sending material down demolition chutes out the windows,” architect... View Details
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Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP | Baker Library
Database Select CRSP Under Annual Updates on left select Stock / Security Files, then Monthly Stock File Step One: Date Range Set Beginning Date month and year, e.g. Jan 1925 Set Ending Date month and year, e.g. Dec 2008 Data... View Details
L. Lowry Mays
Beginning with one small radio station in 1972, Mays went on to create a massive media empire under the name Clear Channel Communications. Mays was particularly aggressive in acquiring new entities as... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
first decade of the new century. Professor McFarlan has visited China more than 70 times in the past 37 years. (photo by Webb Chappell) What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy was View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14
three things: the Central African Republic to replace Mali and Somalia as Africa's worst hot spot; the 2016 US presidential race will begin to hog the news and quickly annoy you; and I'll be lost somewhere... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
High-Level Impact
Beginning this fiscal year, alumni and friends who make an annual commitment at levels of $5,000+, $10,000+, $25,000+, and $100,000+ to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation (formerly known as the Dean's Fund) will be recognized as... View Details
- 11 Jun 2016
- News
Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click
(Talia Herman for The New York Times) (Talia Herman for The New York Times) Startups often begin around a pain point. For Jake Anderson (MBA 2010), that point was a painful... View Details